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What's New in the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

2008

Mar 08-Shapes for climate zones in Sri Lanka have been added as a new Features data set
Mar 08-A new "International Federation" Map Room has been added to the IRI Map Rooms and is accessible from the Map Room front page. It contains a forecast precipitation map tool developed in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that features analyses to provide context for global precipitation forecasts.
Mar 08-A new "linked pdf" image option has been added to the Figure Viewer pages of the Data Library. Clicking on the "linked pdf" button will produce a clickable PDF version of the image you are viewing that links back to the Figure Viewer page for the image in the Data Library. The following link provides an example: February 2008 SSTA
Feb 08-A k-means cluster analysis named k-means136 has been added to the Data Library as a new function

2007

Dec 07-World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) Full Data Reanalysis Precipitation product added
Nov 07-Climate and Fire Resource Room added to the suite of IRI Map Rooms.
Nov 07-An employment opportunity to join the Data Library team as a Staff Associate or Senior Staff Associate at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) is available. Please see a full description of the position at the IRI Employment page.
Oct 07-Agricultural, Climatological, Epidemiological, Hydrological, and Political geographical Features added as data sets
Oct 07-Simple Ocean Data Assimilation Reanalysis (SODA) Version 2.0.2-3 from UMD added
Oct 07-Unrestricted access to ECHAM5 T42 and T85 historical model runs now available
Oct 07-Korea Meteorological Agency (KMA) WCRP SMIP-2 prescribed SST simulations added
Jul 07-NCEP/DOE AMIP II Reanalysis (Reanalysis-2) data set added
Jun 07-World Ocean Atlas 2005 from NODC added
Jun 07-NCEP CPC Constructed Analog sea surface temperature forecasts added
May 07-WCRP CMIP3 IPCC 4th Assessment Model Output Database added
May 07-Latest monthly (March 2007 release) and pentad (May 2007 release) versions of CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) added
May 07-GFDL AM2.14 AMIP 10-member ensemble monthly historical runs added
May 07-UNAM gridded monthly precipitation, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature data set (May 2007 release) for Mexico and surroundings added
Feb 07-NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) seasonal prediction model retrospective ensemble forecast monthly and daily output added
Feb 07-CRUTEM3 and CRUTEM3v (variance adjusted) land air temperature anomalies and HadCRUT3 and HadCRUT3v (variance adjusted) combined land and marine surface temperature anomalies from the Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit added

2006

Dec 06-Latest monthly and pentad CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) datasets added (October 2006 releases)
Oct 06-USGS Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base, Version 2.0 global data set added
Sep 06-New search utility for the Data Library Map Room, which is an intermediate step toward a full data search currently under development
Aug 06-Retrospective ensemble forecasts from the CCM3.6 and ECHAM4.5 models based on constructed analogue sea surface temperatures added
Aug 06-ECHAM4.5 85-member ensemble simulation runs added
Jul 06-Global oxygen isotopic composition data from LeGrande and Schmidt (2006) added
Jun 06-Latest monthly and pentad CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) datasets added (May 2006 releases)
Mar 06-Data from the Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) added
Feb 06-Latest monthly and pentad CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) datasets added (November and December 2005 releases)
Feb 06-Monthly gridded precipitation dataset for N. South America, Central America, Caribbean Islands, Mexico and S. United States from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) added

2005

Oct 05-Updated version of Servain's tropical Atlantic SST and pseudo-stress data (processed at FUNCEME) added
Sep 05-CMORPH 3-hourly precipitation estimates dataset from CPC added
Sep 05-Latest CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) dataset added (July 2005 release)
Sep 05-1-Degree Daily (1DD) version of precipitation estimates from NASA's Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) added
Aug 05-West African subset of the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) dataset added
Jul 05-New Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) Daily dataset from NOAA/NCDC added
Jul 05-Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) Versions 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 added
Jul 05-New precipitation climatology dataset from the DEKLIM VASClimO project added
Apr 05-Global NDVIg dataset from UMD/GLCF added
Apr 05-CMORPH daily precipitation estimates dataset from CPC added
Mar 05-Africa Rainfall Climatology daily precipitation estimates (ARC) dataset from CPC/FEWS added
Mar 05-Monthly meteorological observation dataset from the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA/Uruguay) added
Feb 05-Southern Asia rainfall estimates (RFE) dataset from CPC/FEWS added
Jan 05-Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) Version 1.2 dataset added
Jan 05-Land DAAC MODIS dataset from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) added
Jan 05-Latest Pentad and Monthly CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) datasets added (Oct, Nov 2004 releases)

2004

Dec 04-Precipitation REConstruction over Land (PREC/L) dataset added
Nov 04-New Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) analyses in Global Maproom
Nov 04-New Ingrid Function Documentation available
Nov 04-Daily meteorological observation dataset from the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA/Uruguay) added
Nov 04-Latest CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) dataset added (July 2004 release)
Oct 04-Malaria Early Warning System (MEWS) precipitation analyses available in Regional Maproom - Africa
Oct 04-New version of CCM3 (CCM3v6) added
Oct 04-Global Ocean Data Assimilation Operational System (GODAS) dataset added
Aug 04-New Statistical Analysis Tutorial available
Aug 04-Global River Discharge (RivDIS) dataset added
Aug 04-North American Drought Atlas 2004 dataset added
Aug 04-Crop Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (WRSI) dataset added
May 04-Latest version of NCDC Extended Reconstructed global Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset added
May 04-Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA) datasets added
Mar 04-Latest version of UEA Jones temperature datasets added
Feb 04-TOMS erythemal UV irradiance datasets added
Feb 04-Latest CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) dataset added (December 2003 release)
Jan 04-Improved political boundary and river overlays
We have improved the political boundary and river overlays that can be used in the Data Library viewer. To do use these overlays, click on the Edit "Plot" button in the table under the viewer. Then simply select the box of your desired overlay, such as "states_gaz" or and "rivers_gaz", and then the "plot" button. (Note: Overlays with "gaz" in their name are improved versions of previously-available overlays, while both streams selections are brand new.) The "streams" selection will plot permanent streams and the "int_streams" selection will plot intermittent streams. Both of the streams selections are currently only available for South America and a large portion of Africa. In this example, soil moisture in South America is overlayed with state and provincial boundaries and major rivers. Just click the "simple" or "more options" buttons to return to the viewer.

2003

Dec 03-Global Monthly Soil Moisture dataset added
Nov 03-New atmospheric circulation analyses in Global Maproom
Nov 03-Latest CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) dataset added
Aug 03-TOMS Aerosol Index datasets added
Jul 03-Indian subdivision-level precipitation dataset added
Jul 03-World Ocean Atlas 2001 dataset added
May 03-Global Daily Climatology Network dataset added

Is there a dataset or function that you would like to see added to the Data Library? Contact the Data Library Group with your comments and suggestions.